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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts) Sat Apr 22, 2017, 01:04 PM Apr 2017

OMG- I discovered I am a neo-con. You might be one too.

“The question is, what is it that holds us together? The neocons say we’re an ideological people bound together by what Lincoln said at Gettysburg and what Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, and that’s what makes us one nation. But my tradition of conservatism says it’s not; it’s the idea of culture and faith and belief and history and heroes and holidays.”

-Pat Buchanan

At our best we are bound together by ideas, not by blood and soil.

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OMG- I discovered I am a neo-con. You might be one too. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 OP

Pat Buchanan is the face of old conservatism. JHan Apr 2017 #1

Compared to the Tea Party and Trump, the neo-cons don't comradebillyboy Apr 2017 #2

Fuck. This. lies Apr 2017 #3

He also whitewashes what he and his ilk believe; that only white Christians cane be "real" americans DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #4

so very true lies Apr 2017 #5

This is not true DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #6

His conservativism lies Apr 2017 #7

And his kindred spirit is in the White House, pity us. DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 #8

JHan

(10,173 posts)

1. Pat Buchanan is the face of old conservatism.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 01:25 PM

Apr 2017

like Pre-FDR conservatives.

The conservatives who opposed the new deal - isolationist, protectionist, regressive on every metric you could think of.

comradebillyboy

(10,174 posts)

2. Compared to the Tea Party and Trump, the neo-cons don't

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 01:30 PM

Apr 2017

look so bad anymore.

lies

(315 posts)

3. Fuck. This.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 01:43 PM

Apr 2017

Neoconservatives = Iraq War.
Neoconservatives = spreading 'freedom' at the end of a gun.
Neoconservatives = Leo Strauss, and all that that implies.

Pat Buchanan is an ass, and his whitewashing of neoconservatives is disgusting.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

4. He also whitewashes what he and his ilk believe; that only white Christians cane be "real" americans

Reply to lies (Reply #3)

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 01:47 PM

Apr 2017

lies

(315 posts)

5. so very true

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #4)

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 01:50 PM

Apr 2017

he's a real scumbag

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

6. This is not true

Reply to lies (Reply #5)

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 01:56 PM

Apr 2017

"But my tradition of conservatism says it’s not; it’s the idea of culture and faith and belief and history and heroes and holidays."

His conservatism is based on white Christian exclusivity.

lies

(315 posts)

7. His conservativism

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #6)

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 04:00 PM

Apr 2017

Is based on distortions and delusions...

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

8. And his kindred spirit is in the White House, pity us.

Reply to lies (Reply #7)

Sat Apr 22, 2017, 04:05 PM

Apr 2017

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